hi there I'm Drew Badger and I help
guide english learners all over the
world to speak in confidence and fluency
in this video we're going to focus on
connecting more casual and
conversational speech with more maybe
professional kind of speech and show how
may be in the same situation you can use
different vocabulary to express
different things but again in a more
casual or more professional way in our
first situation will describe something
that's possible or will probably happen
or is likely to happen all of these
words probable possibly and likely these
are ways of describing maybe eighty
percent ninety percent of the way that
something is likely to occur and again
to occur or something is likely to
happen these are just you know their
regular ways of expressing this but
typically there may be more used for a
professional environment so you can use
these in an everyday conversational
sense but often native speakers are much
more likely to use I bet so you bet
something will happen when you think it
is probably likely so both of these
phrases are exactly the same they have
the same meaning but often it's just may
be faster to say it so if you're saying
yeah I bet it will rain if we go to the
park because we are usually so unlucky
with weather so I bet it will rain or I
bet my friend will be late again today
because he is always late now contrast
this with something you might see in a
textbook like you know my friend will
probably be later my friend will most
likely be late because he is often late
to meetings with us so these are both
correct English but again native
speakers when you're talking in a casual
casual and conversational way or a
casual and conversational situation
people would just say I bet so I bet
something will happen I bet it will
happen next if I am at an office and I
am explaining to someone that I am doing
something right now maybe creating
something I'm not finished with it yet
but I'm in the process of doing that
thing right now so I am attempting to
finish my project or I am in the process
of completing my project or am in the
process of starting my project in the
process of and attempting to do
something you can use these in
conversational speech but instead of
using these which again you would use
more in
professional setting we often use I'm
trying to do something so I'm trying to
get to the airport so people say oh what
do you want to do oh I'm trying to get
to the airport so this is a conversation
way of saying I want to do something or
I am attempting to do something but
again it's faster to say this and if you
contrast these two in a conversational
situation if I say to my friend oh I'm
attempting to get to the airport right
now he would say well why are you
speaking like that that's a quite formal
way of expressing yourself so I would
normally say I'm trying to get to the
airport but trying to this is a really
common thing if you listen for this this
word trying native speakers will often
use this to kind of soften their
language so they don't say I'm going to
the airport usually we say I'm trying to
get to the airport so I'm moving in some
way I'm in the process of doing
something but we describe this as trying
to do something to try to do something
next we're going to look at let's say
and let's just save these are related
but their meanings are different so
let's cover them individually the first
one is let's say now this is a
conversational way of expressing
yourself to talk about giving an example
in a more professional environment you
might say for example and then go into
an example of something so we are
thinking about maybe offering some new
products for the company for example we
might introduce you know a new hand
cream and something like this but you
could also say in a more casual
environment instead of saying yeah I
went to you know maybe I'm talking to a
friend of mine and I say let's say I
want to go to you know whatever so I'm
like trying to trying to give an example
of a place I want to go for vacation so
you might say oh where do you want to go
I'd say let's say I don't know Hawaii so
I'm just using that as an example I say
for example so I'm describing it as an
example and I say we're going to talk
about Hawaii right now so let's say I
want to get to white and like I'm
explaining here's the thing I'm you know
trying to give an example of so i might
not actually be trying to get to Hawaii
but I'm explaining that in a
conversational way so as an example I
want to go to Hawaii let's say I want to
go to Hawaii how do I get
so let's say so for example as an
example how do I get there now let's
just say this is related but it's still
a different meaning let's just say is
often used as a way of summarizing
something so maybe I want to give an
explanation of something but then at the
end i might summarize that and for maybe
a business meeting i might be giving a
presentation and say in summary we're
going to do XY and z so I give a long
maybe 20-minute presentation and then at
the end I speak for one more minute and
say okay we're going to summarize what
we've just talked about today in summary
we're going to do this but if I say
let's just say typically this is in a
more casual conversational situation
where I'm describing something and then
I want to just say all right well let's
kind of forget about this long way of
explaining it and let's just say this so
i can describe for as an example let's
say i'm talking about a friend of mine
who is really sick so he had maybe some
heart problem and a headache and all
these other things and i'm trying to
describe a really long thing in detail
to explain what is actually happy with
him but maybe the person is getting
bored or whatever and I say okay let's
just say he's really sick so let's just
say like let's agree to say that he's
really sick so in this way I'm not
really giving an example I'm trying to
give a summary in some way but make it
kind of easier to save the final the
final thing I'll mention about let's
just say is that you'll often hear
people when they want to express
something one way but not use it maybe
in that same language now this is kind
of a tricky idea but often let's say
you're maybe talking in front of your
children and you don't want to hear you
don't want them to hear something you're
talking about so I'm maybe talking about
like let's say i'm at my friends so
again i'm using let's say so let's say
i'm at my friends house i'm giving an
example so let's say i'm at my friends
house and he has a daughter that's two
years old and I'm talking about some
girl that I met and I say oh we had like
a really great time and like I'd like to
go into detail or describe maybe what
happened but I say well let's just say
the evening was very
good and he understands what I'm talking
about so again it's that same way of
taking something but you're summarizing
it in kind of a different way or using
different language for that so instead
of giving a long detailed thing it's
almost like let's forget about all that
stuff I just said but here is the same
thing in a slightly easier way let's
just say next we have a quite simple an
interesting one typically people will
use Y in conversations and why is a
typically good word to use why there's
certainly no problem with using it in a
professional or an academic or even a
casual situation but typically people
will kind of make their language a bit
softer as I explained in videos where to
make your language softer really just
means you're not trying to say exactly
what you want to say in a forceful way
so you're kind of saying it in a way
that you know maybe you're not being
direct especially if you have maybe a
criticism of someone or you're trying to
give them some kind of helpful feedback
say maybe you might not want to wear
that dress so I wouldn't say wow that
dress is ugly like nobody wants to hear
that and the person is just going to get
mad at me so if I say maybe you might
not want to do that so this is a case
where I'm saying well you're not I want
to say something directly but you know
for political reasons you know we're
people dealing with each other so we
have to kind of change our speech make
our speech a little bit softer so it's
really about speaking in a less direct
and less straight forward way so in this
case you can use the word why but if you
if you talk to someone you say why did
you do this like if you're asking
someone especially in that situation why
why does this happen or why do you do
this and in that way you're you seem
like you're kind of accusing someone so
a lawyer might say why did you do this
and like you're sitting there with
someone in your you're talking with them
and you're really asking them some
questions and being kind of direct with
that or quite direct with that but in a
conversational way people will often use
how come so how come you're always late
how come you're always late instead of
why are you always late so notice how
it's the same thing I'm asking the same
question but how come becomes a slightly
kind of may be nicer and softer way of
expressiveness so how come
how come you're late but I can you know
again use this for not just describing
things to other people or saying things
to other people i could say how come it
always rains when we go to the park how
come it always rains when we go to the
park so i could say why does it always
rain but again if you want to sound more
casual and conversational how come how
come and finally whatsoever whatsoever
this was asked recently and i decided
i'll just put it in this video because
it seems like a good thing to cover
whatsoever it just means at all so i
don't have a problem with him whatsoever
i don't have a problem with him at all
now typically you will hear at all maybe
in a more kind of professional or
academic situation but in a casual
conversational way you can just say
whatsoever I don't have a problem
whatsoever with that person or I don't
care whatsoever with you know whatever
we decide to do for dinner so I don't
care about whatsoever just means at all
so there's no like chance or no thinking
or no worry at all like I don't have a
problem whatsoever with what people are
talking about whatsoever whatsoever well
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